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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure

By : Frederik Vos
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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure

By: Frederik Vos

Overview of this book

Azure’s market share has increased massively and enterprises are adopting it rapidly, while Linux is a widely-used operating system and has proven to be one of the most popular workloads on Azure. It has thus become crucial for Linux administrators and Microsoft professionals to be well versed with managing Linux workloads in an Azure environment. With this guide, system administrators will be able to deploy, automate, and orchestrate containers in Linux on Azure. The book follows a hands-on approach to help you understand DevOps, monitor Linux workloads on Azure and perform advanced system administration. Complete with systematic explanations of concepts, examples and self-assessment questions, the chapters will give you useful insights into Linux and Azure. You’ll explore some of Linux’s advanced features for managing multiple workloads and learn to deploy virtual machines (VMs) in Azure. Dedicated sections will also guide you with managing and extending Azure VMs’ capabilities and understanding automation and orchestration with Ansible and PowerShell DSC. In later chapters, you’ll cover useful Linux troubleshooting and monitoring techniques that will enable you to maintain your workload on Azure. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to make the most out of Azure’s services to efficiently deploy and manage your Linux workloads.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered several topics regarding troubleshooting, logging, monitoring, and even analyzing. Starting with getting access to a virtual machine, we investigated logging in Linux, locally and remotely.

There is a thin line between performance monitoring and performance troubleshooting. There are many, many different utilities available to find out what the cause is of your performance issues. Each has a different goal, but there is also much overlap. I covered the most popular utilities in Linux and some of the options available in Linux.

In the first chapter, I showed you that Azure is a very open source friendly environment and that Microsoft puts a lot of effort to make Azure an open, standard cloud solution with interoperability in mind. In this chapter, I showed you that Microsoft not only puts a lot of effort in supporting Linux while deploying your...